International Day of Firefighters, Day of Support and Day of Fight against Bullying are the most interesting events on May 3 at Athletistic.
In the Gregorian calendar, May 4 is the 124th day of 2023. There are 241 days left in the year.
- World firefighters day. It was established after a worldwide appeal was sent on January 4, 1999 due to the tragic deaths of five firefighters in a massive fire in Australia. The symbol of the holiday is a red and blue ribbon, with red symbolizing fire and blue symbolizing water. A fireman, doing his job, becomes a fighter against the element of fire, using for his own purposes the power of another element – water.
- world support day is the one day a year when people all over the world come together to support each other.
- Anti-bullying day (Pink Shirt Day). Every year, thousands of people around the world wear pink shirts or t-shirts to show their support for Anti-Bullying Day. This campaign was launched in 2012 and has since been supported by 25 countries. Anti-bullying Day is dedicated to combating one of the most common problems facing teachers and parents around the world. According to statistics, every fourth teenager experiences bullying at school at one stage or another. Peer bullying is one of the most common causes of suicide among children and adolescents.
- international chicken day
- Star Wars Day is an unofficial holiday celebrated by fans of George Lucas’ cult science fiction saga Star Wars. The date was chosen because of the often heard quote May the Force be with you (May the Force be with you), which became popular, which many fans beat as May the fourth be with you (eng. Fourth – fourth and May – Mayo ).
- Birthday of the Folding Umbrella
- Vermicelli Soup Day
- world labyrinth day
- international scrapbooking day – a type of handicraft art, consisting in the production and design of family or personal photo albums.
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1113 – Vladimir Monomakh ascends the throne of Kiev.
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1715 – The first folding umbrella is made in Paris.
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1738 – by order of Empress Anna Ioannovna, French dance master Jean-Baptiste Lande founded the first Russian dance school in St. Petersburg.
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1838 – cultural figures bought the Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko from serfdom.
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1878 – Thomas Alva Edison publicly demonstrated the phonograph he had invented for the first time at the opera house.
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1904 Construction of the Panama Canal begins.
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1904 – In England, Henry Royce and Charles Rolls began manufacturing cars under the Rolls-Royce name.
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1927 – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts is founded in the United States, soon to create the Oscar film award.
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1979 – Margaret Thatcher becomes Britain’s first female prime minister.
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1988 – PepsiCo became the first Western company to buy advertising time on Central Soviet Television.
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1655 – Bartolomeo Cristofori, Italian musical instrument maker, inventor of the piano.
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1899 – Fritz von Opel, German industrialist and inventor, pioneer in the field of rocketry.
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1928 – Hosni Mubarak, Egyptian military and political figure, President of Egypt.
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1929 – Audrey Hepburn, British actress, Academy Award winner.
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1987 – Nastya Kamensky, Ukrainian singer.
On this day, the Orthodox Church commemorates several martyrs who died simultaneously in one place.
Today people celebrate Proklov’s Day. Other names of the holiday: Proculus, Proculus Day, Lelnik, Curse of Evil.
The people chose from among them a deacon, the Hieromartyr Proculus of Puteoli. Firstly, this name is the most common among farmers, and secondly, it corresponds to the word “curse”. The truth is that on this day it is customary to curse evil spirits.
Leleny time has come – that’s what the season of games and dances is called. The girls on Proklov’s Day danced around the apple tree and sang songs.
Gathering in companies, the peasants went outside, stood facing the sun at sunset, uttered conspiracies and curses. The event in folk tradition symbolizes darkness.
According to legend, Proclus is also a good day to find lost people and lost things.
On this day, it is forbidden to fight and do hard work. People say that the work being done today is useless.
- If the bees buzz on the apple tree, then in winter they want to sleep early, that is, October will be cold and frosty.
- If the bird cherry blooms on Proklov’s day, one can expect a hot summer. It is believed that the earlier the bird cherry blooms, the hotter the summer to expect.
- If the birch blooms earlier, the summer will be dry, and if the maple – rainy.
- Light rain today – to prolonged bad weather.
Name days on May 4 will be celebrated by: Alexander, Alexei, Dionysius, Ivan, Isakiy, Maximian, Nikolai, Proclus, Socrates, Sossa, Theodore, Philip, Jacob.
Source: korrespondent
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